David Kishik

David Kishik is the author of To Imagine a Form of Life, a series of paraphilosophical books:

• Volume 1, To Imagine a Language, is an examination of the axis around which Ludwig Wittgenstein's evolving thought turns.
• Volume 2, The Coming Politics, is a fragmentary investigation of the unitary power behind Giorgio Agamben's work.
• Volume 3, A Theory of a City, is an imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, set in twentieth-century New York.
• Volume 4, On the Rest of the World, is a radical rereading of the opening chapters of Genesis, refitted for a post-secular world.
• Volume 5, Notes to a Schizoid Self, is a work of autophilosophy that can be read as either the preface or postface of the complete series.

Now he is making unwritten works in practical philosophy:

• Part 1, Transcription (2021-2).
• Part 2, Conversion (2023-4).
• Part 3, Education (2025-6).
• Part 4 (2027-8).
• Part 5 (2029-30).

Besides, he translated, from Italian, two of Agamben's essay collections: Nudities and What Is an apparatus?

Some of his shorter pieces appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lapham's Quarterly, 3:A.M. Magazine, Public Seminar, and Alaxon.

His work has been translated into German, Russian, Korean, Farsi, and Hebrew.

As a performer he appeared in Netta Yerushalmy's Paramodernities.

Previously he was a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.

At Emerson he received the Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Huret Award for Faculty Excellence.